Monday, April 20, 2009

LabourHome Attacks Labour General Secretary

LabourHome, in the guise of Alex Hilton, has launched a blistering attack on the Labour Party General Secretary, Ray Collins. Bearing in mind that Alex is a Labour PPC (Chelsea & Fulham), it's a fairly brave thing to do.

Not only is Ray Collins' judgement in question after inviting Derek Draper to be the party's New Media adviser, to disastrous effect, but allegations have surfaced that he may have been more aware of Red Rag than he first admitted.

Furthermore, Collins has been shown to be more in the pocket of Unite's Charlie Whelan than at first imagined; though he was always the Whelan candidate for General Secretary, backed by Gordon Brown himself, when most members expected Mike Griffiths to be appointed to the position.

So he owes too much to Whelan to confront him and he has too little credibility to confront the blairite grouping. But still; there's a Labour seat that needs a candidate and which really could be lost in the event of a protracted and divisive row after the selection is over. But Collins can't institute an investigation against the candidates because his tenure wouldn't survive the backlash from these powerful factions.

I agree with the previous post.Your average Labour activist doesn't get much of a say in the media as everything is so aggressively policed by NuLab's spinmeisters.It would be interesting to hear what "real" people inside the Labour party think of their useless government.

Its amazing really this smear gate thing sems to have pushed the naturally deferential Labour Party over the edge.What about this in the Sun via Cofeee house

"We’re down to 26 per cent, but there is nothing to stop it going lower,” said an ex-Cabinet minister. “We are in freefall.

“People accused Tony of telling lies but Gordon is the biggest liar in modern politics.

“The question on election day will be: Do you want Brown for another five years? Millions and millions of voters are going to say NO.”

Ouch . Remember Polls show that people do not blame Brown for the bust they do blame him for the state of the public finances and they are yet to either suffer the the unemployment ( Now predicted to rise to 3250,000 ) or pay the taxes or indeed suffer the cuts Brown and Labour could face a generational annihilation and many of them may have concluded that they had better start 'distancing' early .

Alex Hilton has to ask what he wants to achieve - for Britain and its people. Then ask himself what the f--- am I doing in the Labour Party?

For the odious big headed McBride - all he was in it for was his own ego, his own perverted sense of power over weaklings. Assuming Hilton is different he has to do what Brown fails to do and admit he has been wrong.

And BTW - there is no point anybody apologising for anyting unless they admit they have been wrong. Brown cannot and will not do this which is why his so called 'sorry' was couched in such vague dissembling confusing terms.

Alex Hilton is a personal friend of Paul Staines and also webmaster of the Labourhome site which Labourlist was set up to rival. It's not therefore much of a surprise to find Alex Hilton and Labourlist taking a critical view.

I still think many of the problems we observe are down to the electoral system which puts political power into the hands of the few rather than the many.

I read on Saturday that the demonstration which prevented the Tolpuddle Martyrs being sent off to Australia comprised 100,000 people. Could you imagine having a demo that big now without modern communication systems? Democracy was alive then in a way that it is moribund now.

Sadly, smeargate & expensesgate will detach people even more from politics in general. Yes the Labour Government are coming off worst at the moment - but wait for that to switch if the Conservatives win.

Let's have:

1) Annual general elections2) Proportional representation / electoral reform - with open lists so that the parties do not control who gets elected - the people do3) No more 'whipping' and an end to grace & favour & bullying by all of the party whips4) Every MP to have an AGM open to all constituents